Lovely weather. North East wind. Rob gets 3, Glen 2 and Nick 6

Gord makes 15 pars and 3 bogies.

Rob is one over on the front.

Glen wakes up on the back.

Nick plays a different course.

Best lag putting possible - will anything ever drop?

One is a push with two putt pars from all but Glen. Gord stops his on the edge to set the tone.

Two is a nervous good good for par between Rob and Gord. Gimmees in the three foot range for par.

Nick plays his first par 3 from the left trees and after a penalty drop, just about holes a fifty yard punch runner but its a bogie. Gord chips for a given par. Rob and Glen both burn the edge with thirty footers. Push.

Four - Nick strokes. His curling twelve footer for net eagle stays high. Rob's same line curling eleven footer goes low. Nick wins with his stroke. One up GT/N

Garry shows up on 5 - walking in from the back nine. His presence distracts Rob. His calling out to explain why he is walking in is done in the middle of Nick's back swing. That doesn't work out so well. Glen chips close and makes net birdie to square the match.

Three balls on six in two, inside of ten feet. All have very curly putts. Nick is not on but is chipping straight uphill to the front left pin. He pulls the chip but taps in for net birdie. Rob cuts that with his own net birdie as the difficult putt refuses to drop.

Nick lays up on 8 avoiding the pond and tree trouble. Rob lags his forty footer for an easy par. Gord's chip runs on six feet but he pours that in the centre for another push.

Rob runs into the back trap on 8. Glen is playing hack hack. Nick is just over the back and has 18 feet left. Rob putts his twenty yard bunker shot through the sand, over the non lip and grazes the edge of the back right pin stopping two inches away. WTF. Making his only putt of the day Nick trumps Rob and once again its one up GT/N.

Downwind nine is a bit tricky to a front left pin. Glen goes nearly to the back of the green and then leaves his putt on the left edge of the hole. Gt navigates a straight four footer for his par. Nick has a free run straight uphill but pulls it so once again it's a push.

Rob 37. Gord 37 Glen 40 Nick 39

Don't worry says Rob to Glen. Nick doesn't get along very well with the back nine. We just have to beat Gord.

Nick waves at a nine foot straight putt. Ugh. Net par - same as Gord who lags to a couple of feet. Glen woke up with the putt on nine and calmly holes his five footer for a halve.

Left trees again for Nick on 11. Deft wedge to three feet but unnecessary as Gord burns the edge again for a par. Glen leaves it dead on line and half an inch short to halve in par again.

Downhill forty feet for Glen on 12 burns another edge. Curling twenty footer for Gord does the same. Is there a hole to be found?

Easy par three 13. Nick in the left trees again. Gord stubs a three foot par putt and with Glen sinking a four foot par putt we are tied again.

Ramping up the tension Glen chips it into the back bunker and hands 14 to GT/N who have both hit the fairway and green for easy pars. Rob has hit trees but nearly holes his fourth from well off the green. Not quite. One up again GT/N

Rob gets a flyer from the right rough and hits a masterful shot onto 15 in two about twenty feet away. Not wanting any pressure, he has his partner putt for a winning birdie after Glen has delicately chipped to two feet. Gord has burned the edge with a thirty foot downhill birdie try. Glen obliges by missing. Rob is pissed he can't ram his eagle try so instead lags it to a couple of inches and a winning birdie. All square.

Poorly played 16. Bogies net par win it for G/R. Nick hits second tee shot and wedge to the green but his sixty footer tails a bit right at the end and the best he can do is the same as Gord. One up for the first time in the match to G/R.

Gord has another putt take a good look at the back middle hole on 17 before stopping just past. Rob surprisingly doesn't threaten the hole with his putt from off the green. No more good good. Gord and Rob sink tiny little second putts to halve the hole in par. 

18 downwind. Rob hits his second behind a tree, hits the tree, hits it above the hole to forty feet and burns the edge. Bogey. Glen is in the green side bunker in two and three. On the fringe in four. Burns the edge with too much speed in five. Bogey. Fifteenth par of the day for Gord and the match ends all square.

Whew. Probably a fair outcome. Nick's putt on 8 is the longest one made all day. But had it been a string game....

Gord 75 - 70

Rob 78 - 69

Glen 80 - 72

Nick 83 - 70